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8th INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN

PALLIATIVE CARE AND ALLIED SERVICES

CONFERENCE 2025

Theme: 20 Years of Palliative and Comprehensive Chronic Care for Sustainable Development in Africa

DEADLINE for SUBMISSION IS 30th March 2025

The African Palliative Care Association calls for the participation of multidisciplinary teams, academia, interagency development partners, civil society, policymakers, and all partners at the 8th International African Palliative Care Conference. This participation will involve sharing experiences, lessons, innovations, successes, and failures in program implementation, patient and family care, education, advocacy, innovation, research, and policy development.

Tracks

Innovations, Delivery Models, and Technological Interventions

  • Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.
  • Highlighting the role of technology and Artificial Technology (AI) in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.
  • Addressing the availability, access, and...
  • Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.
  • Highlighting the role of technology and Artificial Technology (AI) in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.
  • Addressing the availability, access, and use of essential palliative care medicines, including oral liquid morphine, and other medicines used for symptom management.
  • Strategies for Integrating Palliative Care into the health system to ensure accessibility of services e.g. Primary Health Care (PHC), community-based approaches, developing hospital and home care teams.
  • Palliative care as a cornerstone in mainstream disease management including timely integration into the management of specific conditions and rehabilitation, e.g. neurologic conditions, sickle cell disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc;
  • Utilising diagnostics and imaging technologies in palliative care and allied health services.
  • Strengthening and expanding the inter-disciplinary team for palliative care e.g. physiotherapy, pharmacy, traditional healers.

Strengthening Palliative Care Education, Training, Leadership and Advocacy

  • Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.
  • Establishing palliative care teaching in African universities e.g. medical and nursing schools widely and stimulate research could be addressed.
  • Developing, empowering and mentoring the palliative care leaders of the future.
  • Strengthening advocacy strategies and communication around palliative care.
  • Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.
  • Establishing palliative care teaching in African universities e.g. medical and nursing schools widely and stimulate research could be addressed.
  • Developing, empowering and mentoring the palliative care leaders of the future.
  • Strengthening advocacy strategies and communication around palliative care.

Paediatric and Adolescent Palliative Care

  • Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
  • Exploring family-centered...
  • Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
  • Exploring family-centered approaches, caregiver support, and strategies to improve outcomes for paediatric patients.
  • Supporting children and adolescents through the many transitions that they experience during their life and their treatments.

Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Holistic Approaches

  • Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
  • Discussing ...
  • Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
  • Discussing approaches to support patients and families through death, dying, and bereavement, with an emphasis on cultural sensitivity and holistic care.
  • Caring for the Caregiver.

Ethical, Legal, Financing and Policy Dimensions of Palliative Care

  • Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
  • Addressing ...
  • Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
  • Addressing end-of-life care planning, decision-making, and compassionate bereavement support.
  • Discussing policy solutions to improve equitable access to palliative care services and essential medications.
  • Financing Palliative Care and allied health services.

Palliative care in crisis: humanitarian, climate, pandemics.

  • Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and  displacement.
  • Strengthening the health care in palliative care medicines
  • Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and  displacement.
  • Strengthening the health care in palliative care medicines

Important Notice:

Abstracts will be considered for any of the following: oral or poster presentations or workshops.
We will have three languages for this conference (English, French, and Portuguese).

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Policy Makers

Patient Advocates

Civil Society

Academia

Physicians

Nurses

Allied Health Professionals

Music Therapists

Chaplains

Families

Patients

Caregivers

Parents

Researchers

Evaluators

Administrators

Clinical Leaders

Child Life Specialists

Social Workers

Counsellors

Volunteers

Coalition Leaders

Educators

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